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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as pardy.

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Examples

  • Ma critique critique vise plutôt le monde du social media où l'on met sur un piédestal le commentaire à tout prix, toujours plus de commentaire, de la conversation, pardi! ce qui finit par nous donner des trucs comme FriendFeed outil très bien par ailleurs conçu de façon à encourager le commentaire sans lecture.

    About Not Reading — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • Va aussi falloir que je m'y mette en français, pardi!

    50 Words — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • Capitouls (Chief Magistrate in Toulouse, &c. &c. &c.) at least — pardi! we shall all wear swords — — And so, one would swear, (that is, by candle-light, — but there is no depending upon it,) they continued to do, to this day.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Capitouls (Chief Magistrate in Toulouse, &c. &c. &c.) at least — pardi! we shall all wear swords — — And so, one would swear, (that is, by candle-light, — but there is no depending upon it,) they continued to do, to this day.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Yes, pardi! while Panpan lay stretched upon the grass a laughing spectator of the game; and which was brought to an untimely conclusion by my breaking my head against the branch of a tree.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • These things only require a little judgment; but some men, pardi! always are creeping when they should fly, and always are scampering when they should saunter; and then they wonder when they make fiasco!

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • In matters of this kind, each man should look to his own skin, _pardi!

    Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Tobacco and onions are in his great coarse laugh, which choke me, pardi; and I don't think much better of the other fellow -- the Scots 'gallipot purveyor -- Peregrine Clinker, Humphrey

    Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Generals and of their principal deeds of arms -- and not their deeds of arms alone, pardi, but their coats of arms too.

    The Second Funeral of Napoleon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • ‘I thought we had in Paris slackened the matrimonial noose tolerably; mais, pardi, ces Anglois veulent toujours être nos maitres.’

    The Unexpected Legacy 1804

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